From 0f5e57f01d8913457f954e9b4d1ff9b9471b375a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?M=2E=20Yusuf=20Sar=C4=B1g=C3=B6z?= <yusufsarigoz@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2023 19:56:06 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] gguf : handle already encoded string

---
 gguf.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gguf.py b/gguf.py
index e0b4b88fb..88d7e43fb 100644
--- a/gguf.py
+++ b/gguf.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ class GGUFValueType(IntEnum):
 
     @staticmethod
     def get_type(val):
-        if isinstance(val, str):
+        if isinstance(val, str) or isinstance(val, bytes):
             return GGUFValueType.STRING
         elif isinstance(val, list):
             return GGUFValueType.ARRAY
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ class GGUFWriter:
         elif vtype == GGUFValueType.BOOL:
             self.fout.write(struct.pack("?", val))
         elif vtype == GGUFValueType.STRING:
-            encoded_val = val.encode("utf8")
+            encoded_val = val.encode("utf8") if isinstance(val, str) else val
             self.fout.write(struct.pack("<I", len(encoded_val)))
             self.fout.write(encoded_val)
         elif vtype == GGUFValueType.ARRAY: